Eli and the Octopus : The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the Worlds Most Notorious Corporations

Name: Eli and the Octopus : The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the Worlds Most Notorious Corporations
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

Eli and the OctopusThe CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the Worlds Most Notorious Corporations\nAuthor(s): Matt Garcia\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674980808, 978-0674980808\nSynopsis\nThe poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he himself was swallowed up by corporate corruption.\n\nAt 8 [url] on February 3, 1975, Eli Black leapt to his death from the 44th floor of Manhattans Pan Am building. The immigrant-turned-CEO of United Brandsformerly United Fruit, now ChiquitaBlack seemed an embodiment of the American dream. United Brands was transformed under his leadershipfrom the octopus, a nickname that captured the corrupt power the company had held over Latin American governments, to the most socially conscious company in the hemisphere, according to a well-placed commentator. How did it all go wrong?\.